Let me walk through the options in eh Develop Menu one by one:
Open page With
This is a submenu listing all the applications capable of opening a
web page that are installed on your system. Some are surprising like
RealPlayer and so on. Choose it and the current page is opened in that
application.
User Agent
Another submenu let's you fool websites into believing they are
talking to some other kind of web browser and computer other than
Safari and a Mac. Useful for those dopes who write code into their
websites to only work with Internet Explorer on Windows. Pick the kind
of system you want to pretended to be a load the page. The server at
the other end has no way of knowing that your really on a Mac.
Web Inspector
Rather like view source only on steroids. You can view the code either
as a text file or in it's DOM structure. Also look at all the imported
style sheets, images and script files. Rather like a dissembler for
web pages. See exactly what was downloaded to your computer and how it
all works. Web developer are both going to love and hate this.
Show Error Console
Brings up the Web inspector but brings you to any script errors.
Show Network Timeline
Shows a graph of all the various files making up the page and how long
each took to load. Helps you find files that are slowing things down.
Snippet Editor
I have not figured this out yet, seems to to be some sort of realtime
HTML/JavaScript editor Type in HTML code and the bottom of the windows
shows the result.
The Disabled options. These are fairly clear selecting them turn off
the option, for example it will not use any caches which can sometimes
cause problems, you can turn off pictures or script or the timer that
stops a run away javaScript form executing forever.
Hope this helps.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Mar 19, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Jane Jordan (Gmail) wrote:
I found the menu, but what do the options on it mean? Open page
with *seems* to be self-explanatory,and likewise the user agents--
but the rest?
Jane
On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Dan Keys wrote:
Hello,
Safari has a new feature called, Develop Menu. According to the
help information, it's supposed to be used to develop web pages.
You can find the check box for this under Advanced Preferences.
Dan
